Anxiety Predicts Increases in Struggles with Religious/Spiritual Doubt Over Two Weeks, One Month, and One Year

Autor:	Matthew J. Lindberg, Joshua B. Grubbs, Kenneth I. Pargament, Joshua A. Wilt, Julie J. Exline
Rok vydání:	2015
Předmět:	050103 clinical psychology 05 social sciences Religious studies 050109 social psychology Developmental psychology Time frame medicine Anxiety 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences medicine.symptom Construct (philosophy) Psychology Social psychology General Psychology
Zdroj:	The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion. 27:26-34
ISSN:	1532-7582 1050-8619
DOI:	10.1080/10508619.2015.1098820
Popis:	Struggles with religious/spiritual (r/s) doubt occur when uncertainty, questions, and hesitancy about aspects of r/s beliefs and experiences become a source of conflict. Cross-sectional research suggests that doubt-related struggles correlate with anxiety, yet no studies have investigated the temporal patterning of the associations between these constructs. We employed three large samples (Ns = 268, 527, 292) to examine concurrent and prospective associations between struggles with r/s doubt and anxiety over three time frames: 2 weeks, 1 month, and 1 year. Analyses revealed that (a) each construct exhibited high cross-temporal stability; (b) there were moderate, positive concurrent associations between anxiety and doubt-related struggles; (c) anxiety predicted increases in doubt-related struggles over each time frame; and (d) there was mixed evidence regarding whether doubt-related struggles predicted changes in anxiety over time. The discussion focuses on how anxiety may begin to undermine confid...
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